Bethel College offers January short courses and music workshops
Bethel College announces January offerings including a five day Systems Approach to Home Management course with credit options and a $35 tuition. Three church music mini workshops run Jan 4 27 covering choirs organ hymnody and hymnbook studies in Bethel’s Mennonite Church with a $5 per workshop fee and registration through Walter Jost or William Keeney.
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Bethel College
Barbara Overaa
Marge Warta
Walter Jost
Janeal Krehbiel
Peter Letkemann
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Alice
Esko Loewen
Letkemann
Bethel College Mennonite
William Keeney
Daily record items span wills divorces births and crimes
Wills name George P Rush Glen E Rush executor Howard L Royer Catherine A Egan executrix Mabel Maxine Turner Arthur N Turner executor Divorces granted to Terry Lee Rodgers Newton from Nancy S Rodgers Rhonda Joyce Williams Newton from James Louis Williams Ella Rea Kimball Halstead from Dean E Kimball Births Andrew Allen son of Allen and wife at Bethel Deaconess Hospital Jarrett William son of Ronald and wife at Bethel Deaconess Hospital Animal control offers three puppies for adoption mixed Husky Collie plus a tan mixed terrier male Adoption at Community Development office and Town and Country Animal Clinic Fire losses估 at Volney Everts mobile home Hesston Fire started by furnace location and responders Ambulances Newton Hesston and rescue squad Police stolen British Army replicas from George R Graybill inventory valued at 200 District Court Lusk Denver pleaded guilty scanner theft sentenced 1 to 10 years Morford to out of state work camp Erickson 25 sentenced six months probation and 57.65 costs
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Bun Court
George P. Rush
Glen E. Rush
Howard L. Royer
Catherine A. Egan
Mabel Maxine Turner
Arthur N. Turner
Terry Lee Rodgers
Newton
Nancy S. Rodgers
Rhonda Joyce Williams
James Louis Williams
Ella Rea Kimball
Halstead
Dean E. Kimball
Hutchinson
George R. Graybill
England
Army
Kirk Lusk
Denver
Colo
Don Bader
Sedgwick
Lusk
Galen Morford
Federal Job Corps
Stephen C. Erickson
Low bids chosen for final county bridge phase
Rhoades Construction of Newton and Allied Construction of Wichita submitted the lowest bids for the three parts of the final phase of the county bridge replacement program. Rhoades bid 55033.78 on part one and 315862.59 on part two while Allied bid 58431.60 on part three. Other bids ranged higher, with part one up to 82779.90 and part two up to 397202.45.
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Rhoades Construction Co
Newton and Allied Constuction Co
Wichita
Rhoades
Allied
Melvin Gradert
Gradert
Turkey Creek
West Emma Creek
Harvey- McPherson County Line
Geri Gronau improves after donkey accident
The 12 year old Geri Gronau of Route 5 who was unconscious after a Nov 20 donkey incident at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita has moved to a specialized care wing and is semi conscious and speaking a few words. Doctors see daily improvement promising a full recovery after extended hospitalization and home recovery before returning to Santa Fe Middle School. The family plans a hospital Christmas with Geri, with support from parents Jim and the Gronaus and Howard Grants, brothers Gary and Larry, and other relatives.
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Geri Gronau
Route 5
Geri
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita
Jim Gronan
Santa Fe Middle School
Gary
Larry
A.M. Gronaus
Howard Grants
Santa Claus
Deaths and Funerals in Galva Wichita and Augusta
Eva Unruh 86 died at Schowalter Villa Hesston. Services 10 30 a m Monday Lone Tree Mennonite Galva burial church cemetery. William G Block 71 died in Alabama while visiting a daughter. Services 2 p m Friday Flanagan Hunt Wichita burial Calvary Cemetery. Myrle L Hall 74 Rapid City died on arrival at Axtell hospital. Services 3 p m Monday Behrens Mortuary Rapid City burial Pine Lawn Cemetery. Mary Rebecca Wood 67 Augusta died Wednesday funeral 2 30 p m Friday Dunsford Funeral Home Augusta.
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Galva
Eva Unruh
Schowalter Villa
Hesston
Lone Tree Mennonite Church
Marion
S. D
Dan J. Unruh
Brinton
Scott City
Sidney
Curtis
Ruben Becker
Clayton Unruh
Copeland
Dan Jantz
Topeka
Lena Wiggers
Moundridge
Harder-Kaufman Funeral Home
Wichita
William G. Block
Beech Aircraft Corp
Newton
Alabama
Flanagan-Hunt Funeral Home
Calvary Cemetery
Anona
Myrle L. Hall
Rapid City
Robert
Patricia) Granaas
Axtell Christian Hospital
Behrens Mortuary
Pine Lawn Cemetery
Josephine
Charles R
Longmont
Colo
Draper-Cannon Funeral Home
Augusta
Mary Rebecca Wood
Eugene W. Cochran
Whitewater
Dunsford Funeral Home
County Employees Get Seven Percent Pay Raise
Harvey County Board of Commissioners announced a seven percent cost of living raise for all county employees. The action was adopted December 13 by a two to one vote with Chair Orville Schmidt opposing. Preston Bacon abstained on the hospital insurance item which will continue with the current insurer Doris Coombs for Continental Assurance. switching to Blue Cross Blue Shield would cost an additional $7,924.88.
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Board of
Harvey County Commissioners
Commission
Orville Schmidt
Preston Bacon
Doris Coombs
Continental Assurance
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Friesen resigns Bethel post after long service
Walter Friesen, vice president and dean of student affairs at Bethel College since 1974, resigns. College president Harold J. Schultz lauds Friesen’s contributions to the Freshman Year program, grant proposals, student development design, workshops, and counseling services. Friesen says he wishes to return to counseling and teaching, noting administration is not his strength.
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Walter Friesen
Bethel College
Harold J. Schultz
Friesen
Bethel
Schultz
Fund For
Walt
Markets Edge Higher as Yearend Trading Persists
Wall Street rose with the Dow up 1.58 to 986.12 as investors eyed inflation and rates. Southern Co led gainers, while NYSE volume ran about 10.9 million. TWA slipped as the market weighed future plane financing and early 1977 outlook. Chicago and Kansas City futures moved mixed with grains and livestock prices active.
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Wall Street Report
NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Southern Co
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
TWA
Wall Street Journal
Wichita Livestock Wichita
Board of Trade Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
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Newton Kansan
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Volney Everts
Rt. 1
Bud Bachman
Black Kettle Creek
Harvey County West Park
Middle Emma Creek
Harvey- Sedgwick
Beachner Construction Co
St. Paul
Beatrice Construction Co
Beatrice, Neb
Bushman Construction Co
Waverly
King Construction Co
Klaver Construction Co
Kingman
Maupin Construction Co
Manhattan
Prairie States
Reese Construction Co
Scandia
Tucker Construction
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Oklahoma City
Rose Mary Bennett
Birmingham
Ala
Dorothy Gullick
Shirley Laughlin
Anna Lemon
Guinn
Helen) Willoughby
Gus
Fred
Mary Carter
Mary R. Wood
East Broad
Chelmas Conoco
Chicago Cash Grain
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Kansas City Livestock Kansas City
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Nabisco
WestgEl
Exxon
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Wolwth
Arnita Sez
Graber
Ace Hardware Co
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